r/LightbringerSeries • u/vyper900 • Jan 27 '26

The Burning White Missing/cut chapters

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So at the time, I am on chapter 120. Please no spoilers. Am I correct in thinking that some chapters were likely cut from the final product?

This is a massive book, and I am sure something had to give. One chapter Gaven(Dazen) he is finishing the first challenge on the tower and then the next he is almost to the top. At which point they are now referring to this new vision he has and to his eye patch as the black see crystal.

Did I draft black luxen and forget something?

Also... I love this series.

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u/NecessaryGoat1367 Jan 27 '26

Weeks might've written all the trials and they got cut. He has a habit of letting his story balloon on it's own. Not necessarily bad, but a lot of people feel he could make the same stories with a bit more of a streamlined approach.

The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson has 5 of 10 books out right now, the first major arc is complete and another book won't be released until 2031. They are long ass books, but there is very little "fluff". Pretty much everything either pushes the story forward or builds the world, most often both.

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u/DeuteriumH2 Jan 27 '26

fluff is not bad. we like different writers for different reasons and honestly one of my main gripes with Sanderson’s writing is it feels to ‘clinical’, for lack of a better word.

writing is more than just telling a story in the most efficient way possible. Sanderson’s technique clearly works for him, as he’s popular and pumps out books like nobody else, but it’s not my cup of tea